Chapter 15 The Ten Houses of the Inner Repository
The Imperial Horse Supervision Office on the east side of the palace, as the second largest yamen in the inner court after the Silijian, is naturally sacred and inviolable in the eyes of all eunuchs and palace maids. In order to avoid provoking or colliding with the eunuchs from the Imperial Horse Supervision, everyone in the inner court will walk away carefully and quickly when they arrive at the gate of the Imperial Horse Supervision.
But today is a little different. When a young eunuch from the Imperial Magistrate passed by the Imperial Magistrate, he found that there were many palace maids and eunuchs gathered at the gate of the Imperial Magistrate, which was deserted in the past.
As a young eunuch who has been in the inner court for many years, he naturally learned a lot of basic skills in observing words and expressions. After a glance, he knew that something must have happened to the Imperial Horse Prison, and it must be a big deal. Otherwise, there would be no way so many people dared to gather to watch, after all, where is the Imperial Horse Prison.
He couldn't help but come over curiously, but heard a lot of whispers.
"What happened?"
"Don't you know yet? Eunuch Ning, the eunuch in charge of the Imperial Horse, was arrested by the emperor."
"I'm going to be the one who is so arrogant in the past. I'm going to be even more upset now! I guess it's a problem whether my life can be saved this time."
"You are just a villain, you can only add to the point of being hurt..."
"Isn't this Min Gui, the Minister of Justice? Why did he come to the Imperial Horse Prison to arrest people? As a foreign minister, he dared to interfere in the affairs of the inner court. Does the emperor care about it?"
"Share, how do you care? It was the emperor who asked him to arrest people..."
The little eunuch listened for a long time but didn't hear anything, so he had to ask, "What happened to the Imperial Horse Prison?"
A person next to him looked at him and said lightly, "What do you know so much?" But he still said without restraint. "I heard that the Imperial Horse Supervisor had falsely registered the quota and received an empty salary. The emperor sent Min Gui, the Minister of Justice, to thoroughly investigate the case."
"Why don't you send Dongchang or the Jinyiwei to investigate this case?"
"Who knows? Since I fainted in front of the coffin of the late emperor, the emperor's memory has problems. Not only can I remember the past, but I am also acting a little weird now, as if I am possessed by evil spirits."
"Shh, you're desperate? The emperor can also talk about it?"
With a crisp "bang", the man gave himself a big slap, "Look at my mouth, brother, don't sue me." He said that and gave himself a big slap.
"Okay, I..."
At this moment, the onlookers naturally separated. A white-haired official first walked out of the crowd. It was Min Gui, the Minister of Justice. Later, he was led by the Imperial Horse Supervisor to be investigated and all the arrogant people were dejected, with their eyes numb and numb.
It was not until these people disappeared around the corner that the crowd dispersed in the discussion.
"It seems that such a big thing hasn't happened in the inner court for a long time..."
"Yes, it seems that it was the time when the first emperor ascended the throne."
"Oh, things are impermanent!"
"yes……"
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Cabinet value room.
Looking at the little eunuch's back as he left, Liu Jian slowly opened the imperial edict in his hand. After looking at it for a long time, he couldn't help but sigh, "The emperor is getting more and more confused!"
"Ge Master, what's wrong?" Li Dongyang, who was sitting next to him, was a little curious about what the imperial edict wrote when he heard this. It would make this big man who had been struggling in the officialdom for many years express such emotion.
"Look at it." Liu Jian handed the imperial edict to Li Dongyang and couldn't help but say again, "What is the attitude of the emperor toward the eunuchs and eunuchs in the palace?"
This is an imperial edict to abolish all the eunuchs in custody. After reading this, Li Dongyang felt that it was somewhat subverting the image of the current emperor in his mind. After all, this was something that Emperor Xiaozong, known as the "wise king", had not done. He was actually made by a new king who had just ascended the throne who had been equal to the court officials in the minds of the courtiers. This... the plot was reversed too quickly.
However, when Li Dongyang thought about it carefully, he felt that it was not a surprise. After all, the reason why the new monarch favored eunuchs was that he favored Liu Jin and the eight others who were deceived by him when he was in the East Palace, and that he had given all the memorials to Liu Jin and criticized them for their reputation. However, in addition, the emperor seemed to have not done anything too outrageous. Moreover, judging from the earthquake in Jiangnan, Your Majesty is still very concerned about major issues in the country.
"Your Majesty is both guarded and relied on the eunuchs in the palace." Li Dongyang said in a deep thought with the imperial edict.
Liu Jian looked at him with some confusion, "What does Chaling mean?"
"The elder of the Pavilion should have heard the saying 'One emperor and one minister'." Li Dongyang smiled and said to him, "Your Majesty has just ascended the throne, and everything needs to be relied on the old ministers in the court. But obviously the emperor does not trust you and me, so he naturally needs to promote eunuchs to check and balance. However, the emperor obviously does not trust eunuchs very much, so he is the matter of abolishing all the eunuchs."
"Does the emperor trust eunuchs? How could it be?" Liu Jian shook his head with some suspicion. After all, the three of them had been appointed by Emperor Xiaozong to teach in the East Palace. Naturally, they knew that the East Palace was made in chaos by Liu Jin and was a common eunuch. Even the then crown prince Zhu Houzhao was coaxed and was quite fond of Liu Jin and the eight others. Now, Li Dongyang said that the emperor did not trust eunuchs. Are you teasing me?
Facing Liu Jian's questioning gaze, Li Dongyang chuckled and did not defend himself, but said, "At least Liu Jin and others have not been able to really interfere in politics yet. This is a good thing. If it really reaches that point, it seems that they can only save the life of the Pavilion Master and me, and try their best to persuade the emperor to join the emperor."
Listening to Li Dongyang's humorous words, Liu Jian couldn't laugh. The great cause of the Ming Dynasty's revival had just ushered in a glimmer of hope, but the helmsman of this big ship died young, and the new successor was not only young but also looked very unreliable. Thinking that the career he had fought for for half his life might die in the middle, no one could be happy. Now I just hope that the new king would not favor eunuchs as Li Dongyang said, inherit the will of the late emperor, and revitalize the country of the Ming Dynasty. In this way, he would not disappoint the late emperor's death instructions.
"I hope so!" Liu Jian sighed softly, "Send this imperial edict to the Ministry of Personnel first and then send it to various places."
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Inside Maoqin Hall next to Qianqing Palace.
"Liu Jin, what is a priest?"
Zheng De naturally didn't know that there were two people who were worried about him. Instead, he looked at Liu Jian's last time and rewrite the memorials after making a bunch of suggestions. He looked at Liu Jin in confusion, "It was said that the officials were appointed by the former emperor himself, and they had not been selected by the Ministry of Personnel, or the court recommendation and the ministry's consultation."
"It seems that there are back doors everywhere!" Zheng De shook his head and said lightly, "Since that's the case, then we will all be removed from office. Also, where are the Neichengyun Mansion and the Se Key Store?"
"The emperor didn't even know where the Neichengyun Mansion and the Settle Key Reservoir were. It seemed that his head was really hurt!" Liu Jin couldn't help but sigh, but explained, "Nichengyun Mansion is one of the ten inner warehouses, which store satin, gold and silver, treasure jade, tooth horns, feathers, gold and silver..."
"Wait, you can introduce to me what the ten inner treasurys are used for." Zheng De was confused and had to stop Liu Jin from continuing.
"The ten palaces of the inner warehouse are the inner transportation warehouse, Guangjiku, A, B, C, D, Wu, stolen punishment warehouse, Guanghuiku and Guangyingku. The inner transportation warehouse belongs to the treasury of the Emperor, which stores satin pieces, gold, silver, jade, tooth horns, feathers, gold and silver. The Guangjiku and Wu, Guangyingku are under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry, which store sulfur, saltpeter and A guard, wire, yarn, brocade, silk. The Jiaku, C, D, stolen punishment warehouse, Guanghuiku all belong to the Ministry of Revenue, store cloth, pigment, cotton, silk, copper and iron, animal skin, suma wood, store official goods and money. The B library belongs to the Ministry of War, store fat jackets, war shoes and soldering fur hats."
Although Zheng De was still a little confused when he heard it, he probably understood what the inner treasury is, which is similar to the modern treasury, but there are too many messy things inside.
"What is the golden flowers and silver?"
"Gold, flowers and silver are the silver that is paid for taxes and grains."
"Where is the private keystore?"
"Storage keys in each government office, and also store money."
"Return to the inner court or the outer court?"
"It is managed by the inner court." Zheng De was like a curious baby, and Liu Jinhan was almost out of the question. Fortunately, the former finally stopped at this time, which gave him a chance to breathe.
"The book Liu Ge Lao said that the internal transportation warehouse spent more than millions of silver and millions of dollars in annual storage, and the key warehouse stored millions of money, but there was no record of any account book. What's going on?" Zheng De saw this and looked at Liu Jin with a bad look. The latter was naturally a person who was good at observing words and expressions. Seeing this, he quickly defended himself, "I have been serving Master Long Live in the East Palace before, and this matter is not clear. But these are all managed by the Imperial Horse Prison, and maybe they know more clearly."
"Is the Imperial Horse Prison? It's a nest of borers! It seems that Ning Jin and others are not really caught wrong." Zheng De couldn't help but sigh and ordered Liu Jin, "Go and notify the Minister of Justice and ask him to investigate the corruption money Ning Jin and others have corruption. If you can recover, try to recover them as much as possible, and all of them will be charged to me in the national treasury."
"Sister obeys the order."
Liu Jin hesitated and couldn't help asking again, "Your Majesty, what are you going to do with the Imperial Horse Supervisor?"
"What, do you want to be the eunuch in the Imperial Horse Prison?" Zheng De looked at him and asked.
Liu Jin heard this and quickly smiled flatteringly, "What kind of virtue can I do? What kind of official is such a great official as the eunuch, the chief eunuch. I just hope to be able to serve Master Long Live Day and Night, which is a great blessing for me."
"Don't interfere! I don't want to be with you every day." Zheng De couldn't help but shivered when he heard this. Why did he look like a homosexual? He looked at him with a chill. He held back and urged him, "Why are you still not going to pass the message?"
"Yes, I'll go now." Liu Jin went out.
Chapter completed!